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Secondary Principals' Council
The resourcing constraints of timetabling: About Time toolkit
Section 3. Ideally a school’s timetable would be driven entirely by students’ learning needs but the reality is that it is necessarily limited by the resourcing and facilities available.
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August 14, 2024
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The personal price of school cyber security measures
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May 17, 2023
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The New Zealand principal’s experience of the school board as employer - summary
(2009) Summary of The New Zealand principal's experience of the school board as employer: Survey report to NZ Secondary Principals Council and New Zealand Principals Federation. Author: Carol Anderson.
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The New Zealand principal’s experience of the school board as employer - appendices
(2009) Appendices to the New Zealand principal's experience of the school board as employer: Survey report to NZ Secondary Principals Council and New Zealand Principals Federation,
Author: Carol Anderson
Author: Carol Anderson
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The New Zealand principal’s experience of the school board as employer
(2009) Survey report to NZ Secondary Principals Council and New Zealand Principals Federation. Author: Carol Anderson
This survey sought principals' observations of the way in which the board-principal employment relationship…
This survey sought principals' observations of the way in which the board-principal employment relationship…
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The middle leadership problem (2016)
2016 Annual conference paper. This paper updates members on continued work by the Middle Leadership Taskforce since their report to Annual Conference 2015. It includes a summary of findings from…
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The Future Shape of the Special Schools Network in Greater Christchurch: Submission June 2014
PPTA maintains that it is essential to retain special and residential schools
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The cost of change: PPTA survey on NCEA workload 2010
The NCEA changes implemented from 2011 to 2013 presented some major challenges for all teachers, and teachers in some subjects, roles and schools felt these challenges disproportionately. The…
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The changing role of distance education in New Zealand (MoE paper OIA response)
PPTA made an Official Information Act request to access this paper from the Ministry of Education. (Note: 60 pages)
It is more about 'opening up the market' than education.
It is more about 'opening up the market' than education.
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Terms of Reference: Secondary Teacher Supply Working Group
Secondary Teachers' Collective Agreement (STCA) 2015-2018 Terms of Settlement
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Terms and pay gaps between ASTCA and STCA since 2004
(May 2017) Prepared for union meetings with members covered by the Area School Teachers' Collective Agreement Pay gaps between ASTCA and STCA 2002 - 2016, …
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Template-letter-for-MPs-re-strike-day.docx
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March 14, 2023
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Template-for-PGC-and-Wellbeing.docx
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September 14, 2023
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Template - PUM letter from branch chairs to BOTs
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Technology; theory without practice?
(2006) PPTA conducted this research in 2005 in response to the concerns of technology teachers.
Post script: while there have been some positive changes since this report- such as the offer…
Post script: while there have been some positive changes since this report- such as the offer…
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Teaching-Council-Webinar.pdf
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Teaching-Council-fees
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Teachers the new targets of schoolyard bullies (2004)
Benefield, J. Despite a wealth of anecdotal evidence, there is currently very little research data available on the prevalence or impact of the various forms of physical…
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Teachers talk about NCEA - Summary (2005)
(2005) Research conducted by Judie Alison (NZPPTA) This is a summary version of a much larger report of the same name. This version does not contain the voices of…
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Teachers talk about NCEA (2005)
(2005) The report focuses on the voices of secondary and area school teachers, hence its title ‘Teachers talk about NCEA’. It portrays a profession which is engaged on a hugely…
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Teachers in the precariat: fixed-term contracts and the effect on establishing teachers (2016)
2016 Annual conference paper from the Auckland Region and the PPTA Establishing Teachers’ Committee. This paper addresses the insecure work faced by new and establishing teachers through the use…
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Teachers Council: Government patsy or voice of the profession? (2010)
2010 Annual conference paper. Many PPTA members were enraged this year when the Teachers Council announced that fees to renew teachers' practising certificates would nearly double from 1 July. The…
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Teacher supply issues presentation to 2016 conference (video)
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Teacher disciplinary procedures - presentation to NZSPC
(2010) Presentation to Secondary principals' council on teacher disciplinary procedures. Presentation refers to legislation, standards and the process.
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Teach First NZ - Update to members February 2014
It would be fair to say, however, that PPTA has not been kept as well-informed by the university as we would like to be as the scheme has rolled out.…
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